Eat for your goal weight-has anyone tried that?

crazyjerseygirl

Tried it once and it is honestly the goal, buuut,

I know myself. I know I need to see changes on that scale to keep going, so I wanted to start faster. When I tried this way my patience wore out fast. Maybe it's a good idea when I'm closer though (I e still another 50 to go!)

LiveLoveLift48

WBB55 wrote: »

What I heard recommended is you take your estimated TDEE at maintenance, and cut 5% off that just to give yourself a margin of error. So for me, if my goal weight TDEE at lightly active is 1750, right now I would eat 1660. I put those numbers into this simulator (https://www.supertracker.usda.gov/bwp/index.html) and found that after 500 days I would still be 4.5 lbs from "goal." But I'm sure at 134.5 lbs I'd look pretty darn swell looking.

Ok so if i am reading this and doing this correctly......i put in that i now weigh 125 ( not true) and my goal weight is 125 ( true) and it told me that my maintenence ( activity level set at active) is eating 2468 calories a day! I eat almost that much now and havent seen the scale move in i dont know how long. I almost dont know what to do any more

AnnPT77

LiveLoveLift48 wrote: »

Ok so if i am reading this and doing this correctly......i put in that i now weigh 125 ( not true) and my goal weight is 125 ( true) and it told me that my maintenence ( activity level set at active) is eating 2468 calories a day! I eat almost that much now and havent seen the scale move in i dont know how long. I almost dont know what to do any more

This is probably anathema, but if you log meticulously for a while (not days; weeks), and track how much you actually gain or lose during that time, you should be able to accurately estimate your actual current TDEE calories and cut from that.

For me, maintenance at my current weight (149.5) is 1570 calories (at sedentary). Maintenance at my (provisional) goal weight is 1460. That is (1) not enough difference to lose the weight on any kind of rational time scale (or notice I'm doing so - that's maybe a pound loss in a month!), and (2) so close that I have to be logging super-meticulously to even hope to stay within the required margin of error (if it's even possible).

Can't speak for you, but I am just not that patient. That's why I stopped the "eat at goal-weight maintenance" approach.

SLLRunner

Never mind. I misread.

sheldonklein

Deleted due to MFP gremlins.

breezedaze

I've been doing this..though I haven't been tracking..just eating what I need so that I don't feel hungry..more on more active days..less on less active days and I've been losing. I'm able to track again now and will see how that translates calorie wise..but so far so good.